Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 34

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name WILLIAM HAYWARD DORE (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1914

Roll Number 1270 Died 25:09:1916

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1907

Where SOMME, FRANCE Serving with 4TH, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT

Age 19

Buried Thiepval Memorial Pier, Picardie, France Remembered The Thiepval Memorial, The Hinton Parva Great War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Bishops Gate, Wiltshire 1897, Dore spent a long time at SES but few records of his achievements survive. He was in the Upper Moderns Form when leaving. He went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge but did not go into residence owing to the war erupting. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment in Falmouth in February 1915. By May 1916 he was in France with his regiment. He survived only four months, being killed by a shell in September 1916, while taking part in the Somme offensive. His mother later in the war put her large Oxford home at the disposal of the School to help resolve an acute accommodation shortage the School was encountering and at any time put up 20-25 pupils who were called the ‘Dorians’ - this arrangement lasted into the mid 1920s. She became a much loved and admired member of the Teddies community.